One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals. When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.

Glorious glorious internet poms.fun

i did pretty good - got the right basic shape but there were some optimisations i left on the table 🥇 Excellent! 🥇 91%

ok the gold rings were a nice touch but you've mostly just given me a ton of birds.. hmm? sorry, what are the maids doing? interesting.

@sellingamirror.bsky.social 🐈

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

I love being in the right place at the right time and getting one of the secret "cleaning" drinks from the office coffee machine. #serendipitea ☕

back on my bullshit (erasing the wheels off buses)

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

Just because I was walking past in the sun and I love it 😍

Something about it photo makes it feel like a render from a late 90's PC game.

That's not ominous at all Google Photos...

For the past few years, me, Kris at Naive and Matt at Reddit have been running the Tiny Awards, celebrating the good bits of the web. THEY ARE BACK IN 2025 AND NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN! Please tell your friends and share the link, as a small act of resistence to everything being shit: tinyawards.net

tfw you realise you're an earthenware dog from the Han Dynasty.

Humphrey Smith is a very, very odd man. Glad someone finally wrote about him. He's notoriously litigious so has escaped coverage for years. Fantastic piece. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

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